AFAIK all coffee can take full sun and grows faster in it.  I certainly noticed my coffee grew faster in sun than in shade when I grew them outdoors in the summer.  Shade-grown coffee supposedly produces a better tasting "bean", though, and it's better for the environment since you're not taking down *all* the trees in an area and mono-cropping.

I have them in shade and sun, not only do the trees in sun grow faster, they produce more cherries

Any tips on making acerola  juice.

I just throw it in a blender then strain out the seeds and anything else not liquid. I will then boil it for a few minutes with sugar and refrigerate. If only I could get rid of the fresh cut grass smell of the juice.

My Geffner wanted (and still does) to grow fan like without any branches on the sides. I gave up, trimmed the tips and planted a sugar apple that was also growing fan like nearby with the branches forming an "X" they look pretty cool now!

Arrggghhh...

My "winterset" has been in the ground three years now and has bloomed every year, and every year the blooms fall off and no fruit appears. It's getting large enough (The tree is has a 3" trunk, and a nicely formed canopy) and I can't attribute it to juvenile fruit drop so what do I do? Yank it or wait another year?

BTW, EVERYTHING else I have is and has been fruiting very well  with the exception of smaller immature trees.

My last house had a beautiful avocado and EVERY YEAR some bastards with a truck backed up to the tree while I was working and stripped it of all fruit in a couple of minutes.. I figured if "I" can't have them, then nobody can and I chopped it down.

There are no homeless people nearby, my thieves were well dressed neighborhood guys I saw on my security system. As far as biblical quotes goes, I DO expect to reap what I sow, I expect to. If a homeless person came to my home asking for fruit they would get it, theft is never acceptable if I catch someone on my property without permission I will allow my overzealous dog to negotiate their evacuation :-0

 

Today I ate the following fruit from my yard:

My Geffner Atemoya and Sugar apple are still pea sized.

I only have or have had so far passionfruit, jaboticaba, mango, bananas, Barbados cherry, Florida peaches and mulberry.

I am awaiting my persimmon, muscadine grapes, carambola, canistel, guava, sugar apple, atemoya, and pineapple. My sweetheart lychee managed to keep one single lychee on the tree.

Oh, I'm expecting a banner crop from my many coffee bushes :-)

Barbados, or acerola cherry was the original source for vitamin C, before it was figured out how to synthesize it. We had many acres of acerola planted here for that very purpose. All gone now. If you look in health food stores you can still get vit. C made from acerola.
Your juice idea sounds really good, i'll have to try that some day.

Yup I blend them seeds and all, I strain them out after blending.

I'm very optimistic on fruit taste and crop size year to year but a few have provided me with surprises.

Two years ago my Kajang Carambola was by far the better of my three the other two being a Bell and Kary. Last year the Kary was clearly juicier and sweetest of the lot.
 
Two years ago I "discovered" a mango tree in my yard, and its first fruit season the mango were so bad I was convinced it was a turpentine mango. I decided (for some reason) to leave it alone one more year to see if it would improve. Well it did! While it's not nearly as good as some of the modern designer cultivars it's clearly edible and better than planting and waiting for another tree to come to fruit.

On a third somewhat expected note, I have a Julie that was grown from seed and the fruits are smaller, rounder than the parent, and IMO better tasting!

Has anyone else experienced this type of variability in their crops?

The fruits took a L-O-N-G time to mature and ripen and were edible late in the year in northern Broward Florida. What foliar spray are you using?

I've tried neem, and insecticidal soap with limited success.

I was given a gallon pot with a Ambarella tree in it. I am having trouble finding much information about it. Is anyone growing it and what can you tell me about the quality of the fruit and how to grow it. What I can find so far is that it does not like full sun so I will put it in a partially shaded area. I am putting it in a larger pot for now.

I've had two. A dwarf that fruited a couple of times and died. The fruit was just so-so.

The second has never fruited. Both were plagued with scale, sooty mold, and white fly.  In an effort to get ahead of these issues I pugged the second one and it's just coming back but I have little hope for it.

"Any suggestions for areas too hot/wet to grow lavender?  it grows well here until about may, then they all start dieing (not just me, its a well known "fact" in the region).  Sounds like a great way to get rid of ants."

We have much of the hot wet climate in Florida you do at least as far as I remember from being there a couple of times in the summer.

You could try potting them (I have good results in pots) and shading them as well as protecting them from too much rain and when it gets very hot in the sun?

 

I'm new to avocado growing but the pruning I've been doing since they went in last year has paid off in a nice balanced profile with thick ever increasing trunk girth and that concerns me about yours. 

Same here, I have a "binary pair" that grew from seed the PO of my house put in and they grew straight and strong. They grew so tall and had so much fruit their first year, one cracked at about ~12' at a girth of ~6" so I started thinning the fruit (The Sushi guy LOVED ME) and chopped the other to a stump also 12'. I may miss a year of fruit but they look great and I knows the fruit can't possibly break them now.

I read that using a triple stake method encourages trunk strength/   

haha it takes several years for most trees to mature and begin setting regular, strong crops.

Bummer about those lychees :-(.

I strongly doubt that your 'winterset' is in fact a winterset. I believe it to have been mislabeled, as the growth habit and leaves were not consistent with the wintersets that I've seen. Winterset appears to be fairly precocious, flowering and fruiting in a 3 gallon pot. My little 4 footer is loading up with blooms. Then again, you know your leaves... have you ever tried reading them from tea bags? :-)

A side bar... do you have any Canistel ready?

I got it from Excalibur, I've never known them to mis-label a tree, but only the fruit will tell. It's awash in buds again we'll see after the taste test.